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Problem after securing admin directory
Ever since password protecting /admin directory I now receive the following error....

"CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:

Can't open perl script "D:\home\address\cgi-bin\admin\admin.cgi": Permission denied"


[This message has been edited by parker (edited March 27, 2000).]
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How are you password protecting your directory?

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I asked my server admin to set up username/password protection at the server (NT) for /admin and all sub directories
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Well, then I would defer to them to help you.

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Oh dear, I am in a bit of a circle now as they tell me to check with the program supplier!!
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Perhaps you can help me with any special instructions I need to give my server admin to set up password protection?
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They have to make sure that "Everyone" has read, write, and delete access to the files in the password protected directory, since you will be accessing the admin.cgi script via your web browser.

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I appreciate your assistance, everything is set up as far as permissions are required. I am going to ask them to reverse the security until I figure out a method that works..
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Well...the error message you posted means that the permissions are NOT set-up properly to work with CGI scripts.

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I have just checked the permissions on all cgi-bin directories and the "pages" directory and everything is set to 777 drwxrwxrwx

Is this accurate....
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Yes...however, you do not need to have this permission for all directories in your cgi-bin directory...only those that you are writing data to, like the /admin/data/ directory.

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I got everything working by asking my admin "to remove access to admin.cgi only for the inet user account, but enable
authentication in the iis management console"

Once they did this I am back in business
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Good...glad you figured it out.

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